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The White Partridge
Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels
Soft-paste porcelain, lead-glazed and painted in blue, bluish-green, yellow, red, red-brown, purple, and black enamels. The partridge stands on both feet astride the stump, in profile to right with its head turned to its right. The larger tree trunk has three multiple stems bearing flowers, extending upwards under the bird's breast, and there is a spray of ivy on the ground. The bird is painted in red-brown and purple, with red combs and a red-lined black beak; the tree at the front is yellow with red and blue dotted flowers; the leaves on the base are bluish-green.
History note: Dr H. Bellamy Gardner; sold Sotheby's, 12 June 1941, Catalogue of the Celebrated collection of Chelsea Porcelain, English Ceramics and Enamels, the property of Dr and Mrs Bellamy Gardner, lot 96; given by the National Art Collections Fund as trustee of the R. S. Cochrane Fund
Given by the National Art Collections Fund as trustee of the R. S. Cochrane Fund
Height: 14.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1941) by National Art Collections Fund
Raised anchor period (1749-1752)
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1752
CE
-
1753
CE
The model was adapted from pl. 72, the White Partridge in George Edwards, The Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. II, 1743.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, bluish-green, yellow, red, red-brown, purple, and black)
Partridge
glassy type
Soft-paste porcelain
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Accession number: EC.21-1941
Primary reference Number: 80509
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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